Sentences with phrase «as yardsticks»

Using the previous two decades as yardsticks shows an...

Their brightness is so consistently intense that supernovae have been used as «standard candles» or gauges, acting as yardsticks indicating astronomical distances.

Still, people tend to use them as yardsticks for successful motherhood.

The key is for you to set goals like it's really your business; then use them as a yardstick for to measure everything your startup does.

Hence, a flat yield curve can be seen as a yardstick of ineffective policy normalization focusing on the «wrong part of the term structure.»

Belief in the sign of Jonah (3 days and 3 nights as per Mat 12:40) may, however, be of vital importance, serving as a yardstick for Jesus to «measure» our faith in Him when He comes to «separate the sheep from the goats».

But we must not equate our personal financial decisions with godliness and use them as the yardstick by which to judge — because while we may be able to see what others are spending, we almost always can't tell why.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

The Western countries are increasingly using their view of human rights concept as a yardstick to judge developing countries and to deal with economic and trade relations to extend development assistance.

I make no pact with Death, oppress no virtuous people, oppress no poor person... I do not use my strength as a yardstick for virtue, and do not say that weakness argues its own futility....

manpower, funds, space) to the exclusion of other ideas, and it allows greater diversity in expression by avoiding the use of the «church vision» as the yardstick of validity instead of the relationship with God.

I'll measure the distance from vertical (using a doorknob as my yardstick) and stand just outside the period I calculate using the amplitude and measured distance, while praying to the doorknob.

So why not use them as the yardstick to measure Giroud?

Mourhino won the CL with both Porto and Inter but am sure even his most adoring fan will never qualify both teams as GREAT or memorable... PG's Cl winning squad will go down in the annals of the game as a yardstick for what and how football should be played.....

Not too long ago I used to use them as the yardstick for our team in terms of balance and strength in depth.

... Legal change has been constrained because marriage serves as the yardstick by which law reformers measure other adult relationships as worthy of mutual rights and obligations in the family arena.

With marriage as the yardstick, the relationship between parents with a child in common does not seem worthy of a legal status.

Memorisation is being mistaken for learning and high academic records as a yardstick for measuring the ability of students» creativity.

314 Action uses dollars raised as a yardstick to measure a candidate's viability.

So a good rule of thumb is to use marriage as a yardstick: while a boyfriend should not «lead» his girlfriend or potential partner to the level of a husband and wife — which is to say he is not yet charged by God to lead, cover, provide and protect — he can absolutely encourage her already present devotion and natural gifts.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

Therefore, using that federally mandated data as the yardstick for school accountability makes sense.

«We want to say (to federal officials), «Look, because of the transition (to Common Core), we need elbow room, and there is no way to measure progress from last year to this year, so (let us) use participation rates (in the test) as the yardstick,»» Chief Deputy State Superintendent Richard Zeiger said.

To help schools and communities look together at these goals and create a plan of action, the IDRA has outlined Six Goals of Educational Equity that school personnel and communities can use as a yardstick to measure their progress and as a lightning rod to galvanize change.

For years now, educators have looked to international tests as a yardstick to measure how well U.S. students are learning 21st - century skills compared to their peers.

Those who choose criteria as a yardstick for everything else establish an arbitrary point of standardization where verification need not be feared.

Bradley Scott, Ph.D., director of the IDRA SCCE, gives an overview of the six goals and discusses how school personnel and communities can use them as a yardstick to measure their progress and as a lightning rod to galvanize change.

GT3 RS wont be out of place either as something cheaper and naturally aspirated as a yardstick.

THAT EVENING I arrived back at the hotel convinced I'd saved the best for last, and the next morning, when we're out again, I keep returning to the Twingo as the yardstick with which to judge the others.

Using the old Colts as a yardstick, the Mirage - Colt - Summit should have better than average trouble - free driving.

Keeping the Tiago's cutthroat entry - level price as a yardstick, the Tigor is off by quite a margin.

The sum of the different improvements made to this engine has produced a gain of 20hp and 40Nm over Mégane R26.R which itself emerged as the yardstick in the world of performance hatches.

For anybody who follows Joe Konrath's blog, you'll know that the figure that keeps being batted around as a yardstick for indie authors selling well is those who are selling 1,000 books or more a month.

Using income as the yardstick, not a specific number of sales, is essential: Publishers might otherwise be able to game the clause by offering one - cent e-books the way they've gamed existing clauses by using e-books and print - on - demand..

I'm not too proud to confess that whenever I finish writing a novel, it's Oscar I turn to as the yardstick to measure my own craft.

There is a great weight of responsibility on the shoulders of Motorola's 10.1 - inch tablet: people are using it as a yardstick by which to measure the success of Android tablets against the Apple iPad, a comparison that isn't completely fair (not that you care about ethics when handling over your cash) and one that is likely to shift dramatically during the Xoom's life.

It's not too difficult to assess this if you take just the KDP Fund as the yardstick, although this does ignore completely the cash paid out to trad publishers on Kindle Unlimited.

Hypothetical retirement income is expressed in index points, and can be used as a yardstick for systematic withdrawal strategies — expanding the role of S&P STRIDE from wealth accumulation benchmark to decumulation benchmark.

Many institutional investors who invest primarily in Nasdaq stocks use this index as a yardstick by which to measure the performance of their portfolios.

In keeping with Montier's absolute value philosophy, we investigated several dynamic allocation strategies based on reducing or eliminating exposure to markets as they get more or less expensive, using the real earnings yield as our yardstick.

[1] Some insurance companies will waive breed restrictions on dogs with CGCs, and many states have passed resolutions supporting and encouraging CGC certification as a yardstick for canine manners and responsible dog ownership.

Moreover, it serves as a yardstick to measure probability of a repeat offense.

That gives you the number of cents per point — which you can then use as a yardstick to measure the value of that reward against others.

Palazzolo's play of illusion suggests memory, longing, distances, and loss, yet is tempered by reminders of a present physical reality such as the yardstick and paint, seen as simply paint.

Alfred Jensen and Brice Marden were my 2nd, but in my minority opinion (and it is just that, no one else will agree) neither of the latter two painters can hold a candle to Thomas Nozkowski, if one doesn't use money as the yardstick of quality, which it absolutely is not.

That selecting Temps as the yardstick for the UNFCCC Goals is seriously flawed.

You reject the preponderance of expert opinion as a yardstick.

Yes, lets take his «inspired by real scientists» speeches as the yardstick by which to judge the actual scientific evidence.

OTOH, Tom Karl's project seeks to bootstrap information about past and future measurements at a large number of sites by setting up a small, optimal network which can be used as a yardstick to check the larger USHCN and the US CO-OP networks.

While previous studies, including one published in the Harvard Business Review last year, surveyed employees» own opinions on how valuable their time entries were, this study used economic value, rather than opinions, as its yardstick.